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	Mar 06, 2014 News Karin Larsson Trelleborg acquires 51-percent stake in pipe seal company to gain leading position in North America Trelleborg has, through its business area Trelleborg Industrial Solutions, signed an agreement to acquire a 51-percent stake in the North American group Max Seal. Pursuant to specific terms and conditions of the agreement, Trelleborg has an option and intends to acquire the outstanding share in the company.
	Mar 07, 2014 News Ewart Barnsley Alice now has a partner at Waterview tunnel project Alice, the giant tunnel boring machine excavating the motorway tunnels on Auckland’s Waterview Connection project, now has a partner to help complete New Zealand’s largest roading project.
	Mar 10, 2014 News Annemarie Mora Young women engineering central Christchurch infrastructure rebuild Visitors to the central city taking a look at the pipe work happening on Colombo St, near Ballantynes, might spot some young engineers hard at work, including three young women in their 20s.
	Mar 11, 2014 News The Robbins Company Record-Setting Robbins TBM Breaks Through in Mumbai A Robbins Main Beam TBM completed one of the longest and deepest water supply tunnels in Asia, the Mumbai Water Tunnel. The 6.25 m (20.5 ft) diameter machine displayed excellent performance throughout the 8.3 km (5.2 mi) bore, and achieved impressive advance rates along the way.
	Mar 12, 2014 News Julia Reichwein Ultramodern Metro System for Qatar's capital Herrenknecht supplies 15 tunnel boring machines to Doha: The State of Qatar is pursuing a large and ambitious vision destined to provide the highest standards of living to the country and its citizens by the year 2030. An important component for this is a modern transport infrastructure.
	Mar 13, 2014 News Queensland Urban Utilities Wally the Robot: Inspecting Brisbane's sewers A remote controlled robot is being put to work in Brisbane's underground sewerage network to inspect more than 34 kilometres of pipeline. The lone robot uses laser technology to assess the condition of Brisbane’s sewer lines.
	Mar 14, 2014 News Donna Constable TT-UKs customers are happy breaking new ground using the "jewel with the crown" Since TT-UK launched the "new" GRUNDOMAT "N" soil displacement hammer in the UK, their customers have been giving positive feedback on the Grundomat N’s all round performance. In fact one customer has even had to break up arguments amongst their workforce as to who gets to use it on a daily basis.
	Mar 17, 2014 News Yokogawa India Ltd. Yokogawa Wins Monitoring System Order from Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board in India Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa India Ltd., has received an order from the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to supply a SCADA system for its Centralized SCADA Monitoring Centre, which will monitor the city’s water distribution network and wastewater facilities. This is Yokogawa’s first order from a water municipality in India, and this project is being funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
	Mar 18, 2014 News United Nations New UN programme aims to help Central African Republic communities The United Nations development agency today launched an initiative to promote peace-building and social cohesion among the Central African Republic's (CAR) strife-riven communities, while also urging donors to fill a $22 million gap to ensure the project fulfills its objectives.
	Mar 20, 2014 News African Development Bank Group AfDB Prioritizes Job Creation and Infrastructure Development in Kenya Country Strategy Paper The Board of the Africa Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 approved the Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Kenya, which articulates the Bank’s priority areas of support to Kenya from 2014-2018. The CSP supports the country’s ambitions and addresses its main developmental challenges by promoting job creation as the overarching objective.
	Mar 19, 2014 News Nibal Zgheib Stimulating the flow of investment for enhanced water productivity in Jordan EBRD and FAO bring together public and private sector to identify bottlenecks and opportunities.
	Mar 21, 2014 News World Bank Indonesia: Communities Work to Improve Sanitation Indonesia plans to achieve universal clean water access by 2019 but almost half of the population still do not have access. A community-based program provides support for communities in the form of training and facilities to help them establish clean water services that they mange themselves.
	Mar 24, 2014 News World Bank Ethiopia: World Bank Approves Funds to Help Bring Clean Water to the Poorest Residents The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a US$205 million International Development Association (IDA*) credit to help the Government of Ethiopia increase access to clean drinking water and improve sanitation services for the poorest in the country. The project will focus equally on women and children who are typically responsible for fetching water for their families.
	Mar 31, 2014 News Tommy Marciniak The Lite-Shield Sheeting System Griswold Machine & Engineering (GME) Introduces the Newest Addition to Our Aluminum Trench Shield Line
	Apr 04, 2014 News André Habel Nunes Hydrostatic level measurement: New information platform on the Internet Comprehensive information on “hydrostatic level measurement” in the water and wastewater industry has now been published by WIKA on www.wika.com/hydrostatic-level.
	Apr 11, 2014 News David Hansen North American Specialty Products Expands Popular C900/RJIB PVC Pipe Responding to positive industry feedback for its C900/RJIB™ restrained-joint integral bell PVC pipe with Certa-Lok™ technology, North American Specialty Products is adding new 10-inch and 12-inch outside diameter options. The larger pipe provides a cost-effective solution for completing trenchless water and sewer installation and replacement, and the integral-bell design helps save time by eliminating the need for traditional couplings.
	Apr 16, 2014 News Sharelynn Moore National Water Company of Saudi Arabia Deploys Itron Technology to Support Water Conservation Itron, Inc. announced today that Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) is installing Itron’s water technology to help the city of Jeddah conserve water resources. Itron meters and communication modules will enable NWC to measure water consumption more accurately, helping the utility and its customers to better utilize the country’s scarce water resources.
	Apr 23, 2014 News Alexandra Dobnigg HOBAS Presents Pressure Jacking Pipes OD 3270 and CSO Chamber at IFAT 2014 IFAT, the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage and raw materials management, will open its gates on May 5th to 9th in Munich, Germany. As manufacturer and supplier of top quality GRP Pipe Systems for water, wastewater and industrial applications HOBAS will exhibit its latest innovations at the fair in Hall B6, East Entry.
	Apr 28, 2014 News Luigi Vianello Salini Impregilo and Strabag win the contract for the main section of the Brenner Tunnel Salini Impregilo, together with Strabag of Austria, was yesterday awarded the contract for the main section Tulfes Pfons of the Brenner Base Tunnel, the mega project in Innsbruck (Austria), following the opening of the tenders. The project is the very heart of one of the main sections of the Trans European Networks (TEN).
	May 06, 2014 News Crossrail Press Office Tunnelling marathon three quarters complete following whitechapel breakthrough Thousand tonne boring machine Victoria breaks through into Whitechapel station as train tunnels reach 75% complete mark.Over 19 miles (32 kilometres) of tunnelling completed and more than 2.5 million tonnes of earth removed.The Crossrail is being delivered on time and on budget.
	May 09, 2014 News Eva Balassa Plastic Pipes XVII to award best presentation prize The organizers of Plastic Pipes XVII conference and exhibition have decided to award a Best Presentation Prize to the most significant contribution in the field of plastic pipe technology. Nominations for the award will be judged from the 130 presentations delivered during the next event in Chicago’s Swissôtel, 22 -24 September, 2014.
	May 13, 2014 News Simon Scherrenbacher Capacity for large pipe production extended With a spiral pipe plant supplied by Schuler and Atis, Group Five Pipe Saudi Ltd. can raise its annual output by 400,000 metric tons.
	May 16, 2014 News Kathy Linden New RockRazo Block-Bit System from Kennametal Maximizes Trenching and Foundation Drilling Flexibility Swap out bits easily as conditions change
	May 19, 2014 News Nick Kaiser Adamstown´s new system is sewer much better Hunter Water has completed a $13 million upgrade to its wastewater system which should bring to an end years of sewer overflows in Adamstown and surrounding suburbs that occurred every time the suburb experienced heavy rain.
	May 21, 2014 News Herrenknecht AG Multifunctional tunnel for Wuhan In the course of the visit to China by the German Minister of Economy and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, a contract was signed on April 23, 2014 in Kunshan (Jiangsu Province) for the delivery of two tunnel boring machines for a large multifunctional tunnel in Wuhan (central China).